The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

For life in general, there is but one decree: youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.

Life has got to be lived-that's all that there is to it.

When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Pain don't hurt.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.